Jaysh al-Nasr

"Army of Victory" redirects here. For Jaysh al-Fatah, sometimes mistranslated as "Army of Victory", see Army of Conquest.
This article is about the Syrian rebel group. Not to be confused with the eponymous Baluchi rebel group in Pakistani.
Army of Victory
جيش النصر‎
Jaysh al-Nasr
Leaders
  • Major Muhammad Mansour[1]
    (commander-in-chief)
  • Major Engineer Hassan Sheikh Yusuf[2]
    (deputy commander-in-chief)
  • Major Zuhair Sheikh[2]
    (chief of staff)
  • Dr. Hassan Hamidi[2]
    (chief of political bureau)
  • Captain Mohannad Junaid[3]
  • Captain Tariq Jadou Executed[4]
  • First Lieutenant Alaa Rakhmon †[5]
Dates of operationAugust 2015[6] – present
Group(s)

Left in February 2018:

  • 111th Regiment
  • Salvation Front
HeadquartersQalaat al-Madiq (until May 2019)[9]
Active regionsNorthwestern Syria
Size5,000[10]
Part ofNational Front for Liberation (since May 2018)[11]
Fatah Halab (2015–16)[12]
North Hama Countryside Operations Room[13]
Allies
Opponents
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Websitehttps://twitter.com/alnasararmy

The Army of Victory (Arabic: جيش النصر‎; Jaysh al-Nasr) is an armed opposition faction participating in the Syrian Civil War. Founded in August 2015 as a joint operations room of 16 member groups,[6] three of the groups later fully merged into Jaysh al-Nasr. The group was supplied with US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.[10]

  1. ^ Nicholas A. Heras (2 March 2017). "Commanding the Jaysh al-Nasr Coalition: A Review of the Ascendancy of Major Muhammad Mansour". Jamestown Foundation.
  2. ^ a b c "New leaders of the "Victory Army" in northern Syria". Ana Press. 17 February 2018.
  3. ^ "'Al-Qaeda is eating us': Syrian rebels are losing out to extremists". The Washington Post. 23 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Al-Aqsa Brigade fighters executed 197 Free Army in Hama and retreat to tenderness". Akhbar Alaan. 23 February 2017.
  5. ^ Abdul Razzaq al-Sabeeh (22 May 2017). "The assassination of one of the most skilled TOW shooters in the Army of Victory". All4Syria.
  6. ^ a b Al-Souria (5 August 2015). "Idleb, Hama Rebels Unite Under 'Army of Victory' Operations Room". The Syrian Observer. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ^ Terrormonitor.org [@Terror_Monitor] (6 January 2017). "#SYRIA #FSA-Affiliate Uwais al-Qarni Battalion Merged With #JayshAlNasr In #Hama Countryside. #TerrorMonitor" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Twitter message Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine[user-generated source]
  9. ^ "Syrian government captures strategic town from rebels-residents, war monitor". Reuters. 9 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b "THE MODERATE REBELS: A GROWING LIST OF VETTED GROUPS FIELDING BGM-71 TOW ANTI-TANK GUIDED MISSILES". Hasan Mustafas. 5 August 2015.
  11. ^ "11 FSA Factions in New Command in of "National Front Liberation"". Syria Call. 28 May 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  12. ^ جيش النصر (5 May 2016). "جيش النصر -- استهداف معاقل قوات النظام بقذائف الدبابات في جمعية الزهراء بمدينة حلب" – via YouTube.
  13. ^ "Official statement listing groups involved in the 'North Hama Countryside Operations Room' - Jaish al-Nasr, Jaish al-Izza, Faylaq al-Sham, Abna al-Sham, Liwa Omar • /r/syriancivilwar". 5 November 2016.
  14. ^ a b c "In Idlib: "Free Army" Factions Receive Turkish Conditional Funding". Enab Baladi. 17 February 2018.